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Even if you can easily complete the daily crossword puzzle and regularly trounce your pals in Words With Friends — classic ways to keep your mind sharp — there may be other everyday habits chipping away at your intellect, sabotaging your precious neurons in surprising ways. Here are six things that top experts say could be harming your true brainpower. 1. You're stressed out. Fretting about finances, worrying over work projects, and trying to maintain a semblance of a social life can create a potent stew of stress hormones. "High stress levels are not only associated with poorer brain functioning but may even link to an increased risk of Alzheimer's...

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Even if you can easily complete the daily crossword puzzle and regularly trounce your pals in Words With Friends — classic ways to keep your mind sharp — there may be other everyday habits chipping away at your intellect, sabotaging your precious...

Polls consistently showed broad support for a 2012 ballot initiative in Massachusetts to permit doctors to prescribe a lethal dose of medicine to terminally ill patients.
Then, just weeks before the vote, Catholic institutions and donors stepped in,...

VERNON — A 21-year-old man who stabbed and critically injured his stepfather Monday afternoon has substantial mental health issues "that were central to what occurred," his public defender said Tuesday at his arraignment in Superior Court in...

A month before he left prison, Jeffrey Murdock, a veteran who suffers from depression and multiple sclerosis, thought his future would entail living as a patient in a state mental hospital.But Murdock's outlook changed drastically after a Veterans...

The tools in Apple's ResearchKit could give researchers more data to work with by making it easier for people to offer themselves up to science, but even supporters say the data won't be appropriate for every study.Here are key things to know:Expanding...

Apple's new ResearchKit software platform turns the iPhone into a diagnostic tool drawing medical data from millions of potential customers, creating a boon for researchers and a headache for privacy advocates.
With iPhone users' permission, Apple will...

Women between the ages of 30 and 55 tend to ignore early heart attack symptoms, which may be part of the reason more young women die from heart attacks than young men, according to new research by Yale School of Public Health.
Many women delay seeking...

The cuts in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed budget to Medicaid psychiatric home care nursing totaling $40 million over the biennium will result in many home care agencies eliminating these services, potentially reducing access for 6,000 Medicaid...

An unarmed, 41-year-old man named David Werblow died Sunday night after Branford police shot him with a Taser when he refused to get out of a parked car, according to a preliminary State Police investigation.Police said Werblow was being uncooperative and...

Q: I appreciated your recent column about declawing cats and your stand against this procedure. But you didn't state what we need to do — namely to ban declaw as some other countries have done. Don't you believe the U.S. ought to act...

Have you ever told your teens to get enough sleep now because in 10 years they'll run the risk of being depressed and overweight? If so, you probably didn't get very far.Instead, try telling them that a lack of sleep can hurt their GPA and SAT scores,...

Yale researchers are exploring whether certain medications, including one sold to help smokers kick the habit, can help heavy drinkers reduce the amount of alcohol they consume.Yale School of Medicine is conducting a clinical trial to see whether those...

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Elizabeth Davis saw three combat zones during one tour of duty and dodged bullets just like her male comrades. Still, the Enfield resident says she's never been treated as an equal in her 24 years as a soldier, and she doesn't...

Jose Angel Maldonado was in an East Hartford lockup last April when he was hit by a police stun gun and died. A handcuffed Efrain Carrion had crawled naked into a bramble patch in May 2010 and was struck an estimated 34 times by Middletown police stun...

Charla Nash never served in the military. She was horribly disfigured, not in combat, but in a 2009 attack by a rampaging chimpanzee. The Pentagon, though, is watching her recovery closely.
The U.S. military paid for Nash's full face transplant in...

HARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy pledged Friday that recommendations from a commission convened in response to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting would guide future policy decisions."This is not about who, what, when, where things...

A new program offering free ultrasound screenings to young black women aims to raise awareness about the high incidence of aggressive breast cancers in African Americans.The Connecticut Breast Health Initiative has awarded a $33,350 grant to begin a...

Tens of thousands of Connecticut infants and toddlers are at risk for social and emotional problems, and the professionals who interact with them most need mental health training in order to help them, according to a report released this week.Children who...

It's become popular to think of foods as either good or bad, something to eat or something to avoid. Carbohydrates, which had their moment as a good food back when fat was the bad guy, are now being blamed in part for the epidemic of obesity, diabetes and...

Tina Angeli remembers her small Hyundai spinning across Route 202 in Granby and then a crash.
There was broken glass and the smell of talcum powder. And then she stopped breathing.
Suddenly, she found herself out of her body and above her car, in a...